CALAIR
CA21 SKYFOX "VH-CAL"
(Composite *)

The Calair Skyfox
was built on Caloundra Aerodrome - the home of QAM

QAM thanks
the Skyfox Flying School for the donation of this aircraft.

15SEP89

The
Calair CA21 prototype VH-CAL (msn CA21001) flew for the first time at Caloundra
in the hands of test pilot, Peter Plaisted. The aircraft was subsequently
used as the "Skyfox Research and Development Aircraft" until at
least May 1998. In this guise it would have served as the prototype for
the succeeding CA22, CA25 and CA25N models.

13AUG02

VH-CAL
(msn CA21001) was transferred to the AUF/RAAus Register as 19-4140 and later
re-registered 55-4140.

A
composite Skyfox airframe was mounted on a pole beside the Bruce Highway
at Glenview near Caloundra for the purpose of advertising the Skyfox Flying
School. This composite airframe was subsequently removed from its pole and
donated to the Queensland Air Museum by the Skyfox Flying School in 2007.
This airframe has been statically restored to represent the original prototype
VH-CAL in its markings as the "Skyfox Research and Development Aircraft".

* This composite airframe
is said to comprise some or all of the following:

MSN

Regn.

Component

CA21001

VH-CAL

Wings

CA21002

nil

Section
from an unflown test fuselage

CA21003

nil

Section
from an unflown test fuselage

CA21012

55-0606

Tail

CA21015

55-0610

Fuselage

A
Special Note on Photographs & Identities

It
is traditional for an aircraft to take its identity from the fuselage
but what is a fuselage without wings but a dangerously inadequate
automobile. The wing's the thing! The composite aircraft displayed
at QAM incorporates the wings from the prototype VH-CAL and this
is the identity that has been chosen for QAM's display aircraft
because the prototype is of great local significance to Caloundra.
Therefore, it should be noted that the majority of in-service photographs
on this page do not depict the fuselage on display at QAM.